I don't feel comfortable with people who do permanent self mutilation to themselves. A single ear piercing hole in each ear is not permanent. Mine have grown shut over the decades.
From what I see here, I figure an opinion that differs here will be vilified, but that is my opinion. If they permanently mutilate their own bodies by going beyond the arms or legs and to the face and neck to the extreme, there is something seriously wrong with their thinking.
When we pay people for handling our food or doing medical procedures like drawing blood in the lab, we have to trust they are of sound mind.
Here is an article where an MD refers to it as mutilation too.
Can't post a link but you can google it:
"Tattoos and Body Piercing: Self-Expression or Self-Mutilation". by Elizabeth Chabner Thompson MD, MPH. In Everyday Health dot com.
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